I thought that the crowd at the USC game was slightly louder but, only in spurts. Saturday's game was loud from the beginning to the end. I've never seen the stadium as raucous as it was Saturday.
The most underrated part of a team is a wild and crazy stadium atmosphere. ND has to adopt this. It's intimidating to opponents and pumps up your own team. Remember when we went to Miami a few years ago and the crowd alone blew us out of the game? Before we even took the first snap.
the opposite of what a team needs. As I said earlier though, you could feel the energy in the crowd even before the game started. It was truly a throwback atmosphere.
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Heard a football commenter say on YouTube today that ND isn't a difficult place to play because its fans are a "corporate crowd". Is this what is meant by the "down in front" types?
There are only 8500-9000 students at Notre Dame? Perhaps 7500 undergrad. Say 80% go to the games. Less than 10% of the fans are students. State schools have 30-60k students. Or 4-7 times as many students
2000 ND students graduate each year. How many living, able bodied alumni do you think there are say less than 75 yrs old?
This is an equal opportunity issue. It’s just as much an alumni problem as it is a student as it is subway alumni. That stadium sounded pretty damn loud Saturday night. Put a good product on the field and a decent opponent and you get a loud stadium.
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Above all else the play on the field will dictate how into the game the crowd is. Freeman said as much to the players before the game.
The down in front crowd is likely either staying at home these days, or dying.
a little energy would have been nice and maybe helpful to the team. Been going there since the 70’s and never heard it so quiet. Easy to be a front runner. Harder to make noise when things are tougher.
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Doubt seriously the young crowd at Bama are all into La Monroe. I saw a ton of older Irish fans on that field Saturday night, including me. If you want to stand and yell at the Marshall game on a 4th and 20, have at it. I sit right by the 30 and 40 something grad student section and they do an awful lot of sitting and eating snacks from the concession stand. Sorry, but the young crowd didn't invent fandom. It was at the stadium long before they were even thought of. It was loud Saturday night and 2005, I agree. It can get loud when it needs to be loud.
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It's all very scientific. I never said they were 30 and 40 years old. I said they were 30 and 40 somethings. The regular current student section are the rows behind them.
They are in sections (not rows):
Freshmen first (starting in the end zone)
Then Sophomores
Then Grad Students
Then Juniors
Then Seniors
You have the band and freshman behind them. In Section 33, you have grad students and sophomores behind them. That’s how it is now set up.
And I guarantee you the average grad student at Notre Dame is not in their 30’s and 40’s.
I promise you no one in that section is in their 60s and older. Do you sit in the grad studs section?
When I was there. I was in grad school from 24 to 26 yrs old…everyone in my engineering grad program was mid 20’s to low 30’s
Little late in career to go in 40’s…why bother at that point